Spiral cuff-fastener



(No Model.)

T. M; JENKS.

SPIRAL GUFF FASTENER.

No. 375,358. Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS M. J ENKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPIRAL CUFF-FASTE'NER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,358, dated December 27, 1887.

Application filed May 31. 1857. Serial No. 239,827. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may-concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS M. JENKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spiral Cuff-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to appliances for fastening cufi's to coat or dress sleeves; and the object of my improvement is to furnish a convenient means of fastening mens shirt-cuffs to the lining of their coat-sleeves instead of to the shirt-sleeves; also, to enable women to fasten their cuffs to their dresssleeves. I attain these objects by the appliances illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is the cuff-fastener combined with a sleeve or cuff stud or button. the fastener as penetrating a sleeve or sleevelining. Fig. 3 shows a part of a cuff fastened to a sleeve with a fastener like that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a fastener made of one wire alone.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. I

My invention consists of two spiral sections or of two complete spirals, which spiral sections or complete spirals may be welded to a cuff-button, as shown in Fig. 1; or the spirals may be parts of a single wire, as shown in Fig. 4, so bent as to have a base which, together with the spirals, form a cuff button or stud. Each involution is indented at one point. 1

The essential part of my invention is sharppointed and indented double spirals or spiral sections, and these may be combined with anything that will serve as cuff buttons or studs.

The spirals are sharpened, so as to easily penetrate clot-h. Their use is as follows: The stud or button to which they are fastened, or of which they are a part, is buttoned into one pair of the button-holes of the cuff, and the spiral is then screwed into the sleeve-lining or Fig. 2 shows sleeve. The indentations in the spirals prevent them from unscrewing and coming out of the cloth.

In Figs. land 2,A A are the sharp-pointed spiral sections. In Fig. 4, A A are the same. In Figs. 1 and 2, B is the stud or button.

In Fig. 4,1 is a part of the continuous wire that forms the double spirals.

In Fig. 3, D D are the cuff. B is the fastener inserted in the cuff and screwed into the sleeve. E E are button-holes in the cuff, and G is the lower end of the sleeve. In Figs. 1 and 4, Z) represents the indentations in the spirals.

The advantages of my invention are the following: The wearer can dispense with elastics and the other appliances in common use to regulate the length of the shirt-sleeve; the le'ngth'of cuff to be shown beyond the coat or dress sleeve can be easily determined; the cuff is removed with the coat, which will be found veryconvenient for those who work in their shirt-sleeves, when one wishes to wash, 850.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent 1. The improved cuff-fastener, consisting of a button or stud provided with the two pointed spiral sections, having the indentations described and adapted to be inserted in a cuffbutton hole and screwed into a coat or dress sleeve, as set forth.

2. The spiral cuff-fastener described, consisting of a double spiral, A A, of one or more involutions,with sharp points, and having an indentation in each, and being continuous with the base F,which, together with the spiral, forms a cuff stud or button, as and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS M. J ENKS.

Witnesses:

J OHN T. DONAHOE, E. O. CRAWFORD. 

